From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Do You Like to Look at Monsters? and Ana Kai Tangata . . . Scott Nicolay’s NOCTUIDAE follows a trio of hikers into the savage heart of an Arizona canyon. Far from any sign of living civilization, and with no way to call for help, the trip goes from wrong to worse when one of the hikers turns up missing. The remaining two find themselves stranded in a shallow cave, suspicious of each other and desperate to survive until sunrise, praying that whatever’s out there won’t hear them. “Scott Nicolay is the strongest voice to appear in horror fiction since Laird Barron.” —Rue Morgue “Exquisite, inventive, savage, and chilling, without being beholden to pulp-era titans. This is Weird Literature, circa now.” —Ross E. Lockhart, editor of Cthulhu Fhtagn! and The Children of Old Leech “We are not in the presence of a callow and bullish youth, but a man of erudition and experience. Nicolay is one who has seen much, endured much, has undergone prolonged pressure and the result is a diamond among stones.”—Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All “Nicolay’s writing is clean-limbed, not a shred of rococco excess on it. Poetry and the demotic mix well in his prose. He expertly delivers clues and foreshadowings and backstory tidbits attendant upon his enigmas and frights without hammering the reader over the head with gore or hyperbole. His characters are engrossing, if often repellant, his plotting assured, and his venues enticingly nasty.” —Locus “The first thing that hits you while reading Scott Nicolay. . . That old black magic that comes with encountering great weird fiction for the first time.” —Crows N’ Bones

Noctuidae

Literature & Fiction

Nicolay, Scott

Genre Fiction

King Shot Press

Debut collection of Weird Horror fiction by Scott Nicolay. Ranging from short story to novella-length, the author takes us to settings ranging from New Jersey to Easter Island. The gritty realism of the characters and landscapes segues subtly into events slipping into the Weird. NOT YOUR OLD-FASHIONED HORROR STORIES! Richly illustrated by David Verba Forward by Laird Barron; After Word by John Pelan Ana Kai Tangata: Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed Table of Contents alligators The Bad Outer Space Ana Kai Tangata Eyes Exchange Bank Phragmites The Soft Frogs Geschäfte Tuckahoe 368 pages; Hardcover. 1st Edition/1st Printing. New, Publisher's Stock

Ana Kai Tangata: Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed

Fedogan & Bremer Pub Llc

Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one inhabitant in the city. In Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray began to fully explore the trappings of the ghost story to produce a new brand of horror tale: one that described the lineaments of a universe adjacent to this one, in which objects sweat hatred and fear, and where the individual must face the unknown in utter isolation. First published in 1931, two years after he served his prison sentence for embezzling funds for his literary magazine, Ray’s second story collection failed to find the success of his first one, Whiskey Tales, but has emerged over the years as a key publication in the Belgian School of the Strange. It has remained unavailable in its integral form even in French until recently, however, though it contains some of Ray’s most anthologized and celebrated stories, including two of his best known, “The Mainz Psalter” and “The Shadowy Alley.” This is the book’s first English translation, and the second of the volumes of Ray’s books to be published by Wakefield Press. Alternately referred to as the “Belgian Poe” and the “Flemish Jack London,” Jean Ray (1887–1964) delivered tales of horror under the stylistic influence of his most cherished authors, Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer. A pivotal figure in what has come to be known as the “Belgian School of the Strange,” Ray authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime.

Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

RAY, JEAN

Literary

Wakefield Press

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Scott Nicolay comes And at My Back I Always Hear, a new collection of eight tales of the macabre and the uncanny.\n"[Nicolay's] perspective is always outsider-identified, entirely concerned with characters who refuse to settle, both literally and figuratively; his protagonists often hover on a knife's edge, caught in some sadly inescapable moment of realization. They've failed and been failed, left discarded amongst the wreckage of systemic inequity. And now that they have nothing left to cling to, their inner eye pops open, suddenly able to see the darkness lurking inherent in every crevice, the emptiness revolving inside every atom." 
---from the introduction by Gemma Files

And at My Back I Always Hear

Word Horde

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Noctuidae

Ana Kai Tangata: Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed

Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

And at My Back I Always Hear